Social Media Content

Imports recent social media posts as content entities.

Use cases

When the Drupal ecosystem is used instead of embeds: posts using fields, images styles, theme layer, Views query (e.g. sort social media content by date along with other content).

When a facade is needed to expose several social media sources.

Dependencies

• https://www.drupal.org/project/instagram_api
• https://www.drupal.org/project/video_embed_field
• https://www.drupal.org/project/video_embed_instagram

Configuration

• Configure the Instagram API credentials (/admin/config/media/instagram_api)
• Content is imported when the cron runs.

Related modules

• https://www.drupal.org/project/social_feed_aggregator
• https://www.drupal.org/project/socialfeed
• https://www.drupal.org/project/social_migration
• https://www.drupal.org/project/social_timeline

Difference with other modules.

Makes use of the post creation date for the Drupal content creation date.

Imports images locally.

For Instagram, imports a generic image for all post types and also imports

• Video as a Video Embed Instagram field
• Carousel as a multiple image field.

@todo explain other differences.

Roadmap

• Only the Instagram importer is implemented, to come: Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon
• Implement import as a queue worker
• Implement update and other import methods (by post id, …)
• Small improvements like: manual import, title, configurable cron, logging, …
• Provide a field formatter for the social media source
• Map social media user to Drupal user if the relation exists
• Import user details (picture, site, …) or configure user for import